The end of the international player retention window marks the start of the squad-building process ahead of the 2024 season, which begins on 4 July. Teams can now add a maximum of nine international players to their respective rosters and have until the end of February to decide on the retention of their domestic players from the first season of the MLC. The domestic player draft will then follow in March as teams build their rosters for the coming season. 

MI New York brings back seven of the international players who will be part of their 2023 title run. This group includes Nicholas Pooran, the tournament MVP of the inaugural MLC, who led his team to victory with an unbeaten 137 in the championship final at Grand Prairie Cricket Stadium. Pooran will be joined by fellow West Indian Kieron Pollard, Australian Tim David and rising South African star Dewald Brevis. 

MI NY's bowling attack will again be led by Kiwi quick Trent Boult, who led the MLC with 22 wickets in the inaugural season. Spin superstar Rashid Khan completes a bowling attack that also features the return of South African pace bowler Kagiso Rabada. 

2023 finalists the Seattle Orcas retain two of their top three batsmen from the inaugural MLC season, with South Africans Quinton de Kock (264 runs) and Heinrich Klaasen (235 runs) returning for the second MLS season. Klaasen scored the first ever century in the MLC, hitting an unbeaten 110 off just 44 balls against MI New York at Church Street Park. The Orcas also bring back their 2023 captain, South African Wayne Parnell. The left-arm seamer will be part of a Seattle bowling unit that will again feature Pakistan's Imad Wasim, the left-arm all-rounder who took 10 wickets at a miserly economy rate of 6.33 in the 2023 MLC season. 

The Texas Super Kings retain three players for 2024, led by superstar captain Faf du Plessis. TSK's top run-scorer in 2023, New Zealand's Devon Conway, returns along with fellow Kiwi all-rounder Mitchell Santner, who captains his nation in this month's T20 series against Australia. Pakistan's Haris Rauf, who took seven wickets for the San Francisco Unicorns in 2023, returns to the Bay Area side for the second edition of the tournament. Rauf will be partnered by Kiwi batter Finn Allen, who is riding high after hitting a world record 16 sixes in a T20 international against Rauf's Pakistan last month. 

Washington Freedom's new head coach, Ricky Ponting, is leading the changes following his recent appointment, with a pair of left-arm bowlers being the only two retained internationals from 2023: West Indies left-arm spinner Akeal Hosein and towering Proteas fast bowler Marco Jansen, who both took seven wickets in the inaugural MLC season. 

Five players return to the Los Angeles Knight Riders, including 2023 West Indies captain Sunil Narine. The off-spinner will be joined in the bowling attack by two of Australian internationals: Adam Zampa, whose leg-spin bowling has taken a team-leading nine wickets in five 2023 matches, and left-arm fast bowler Spencer Johnson. LAKR's batting will again feature the explosive big hitting of West Indies' Andre Russell and England's Jason Roy. 

Further details of the 2024 MLC season, including fixtures and ticket information, will be announced shortly.